[MR] Re: Atlantia Digest, Vol 9, Issue 49

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-----Original Message-----


That is true to an extent but whether our documents say so or not we seem to follow the Norman model: the idea (and sometimes it was just an idea), the doctrine, that, ultimately, the Crown is the font of all power, honors, perogatives, and the like.  The Crown administrates, adjudicates, and legislates.  


-----Respondeo dicendum:
Not all. If (big if) I remember my medieval history correctly, there was a fairly sizable class of people who legally existed outside the legal reach of most crowned heads of state, and whose members were not subject to the ajudications, and sometimes the legislations, of the crown within whose lands they lived (tho this also varied widely by time and region). Not that I want to see that particular aspect of history re-created in the current Middle Ages. Heavens forfend! But this is merely an historical quibble, and not relevant to the current discussions.

Thomas Broadpaunch